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By Lettie Y. Conrad From the time I was a child, I’ve enjoyed listening to people read aloud — from parents and teachers reading storybooks to spoken-word nights at college to audiobooks on long journeys. There’s something quite soothing and somewhat magical about the written word coming to life with voice. While I listen, my […]

Please be aware that the phone lines are temporarily down in the ReadSpeaker Support Office. If you need assistance, please send an email to support@readspeaker.com and the Support Team will respond to you quickly. We will keep you posted on when the phone lines are restored, and we thank you for your patience. UPDATE: The […]

Humans can only work with robots if they understand them. This is why natural sounding text to speech for robots is necessary. Read on to learn more about natural sounding voices and how ReadSpeaker’s products can help. A Brief History of Robots Automatons, or self-operating machines, have been mimicking humans for quite a while. In […]

ReadSpeaker’s leading text-to-speech technology integrated into Blackboard Ally, helping instructors worldwide create more accessible content for learners WASHINGTON, D.C., January 23, 2018 – Blackboard and ReadSpeaker are furthering their partnership to help instructors worldwide improve the accessibility of course content for their students. Currently, ReadSpeaker is Blackboard’s exclusive text-to-speech provider that is fully integrated within […]

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Today, the public sector is focused on improving access to information and cultivating civic engagement and transparency of demographically diverse communities. When you think about your community and how more and more critical content is being accessed by computer keyboards and mobile devices by citizens […]

ReadSpeaker is pleased to be exhibiting again this year at #BETT2018 from January 24 – 27, 2018 at ExCeL London. Stop by Stand C66 to find out how to enhance your content, making it more engaging and accessible for more learners, by adding text to speech. Used by leading educational institutions and publishers, ReadSpeaker text-to-speech […]

ReadSpeaker now offers support for Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) for ReadSpeaker’s speechCloud API and Production API products. SSML is a standardized markup language for speech synthesis applications. It is an industry standard and recommended by W3C. With SSML, the user has more control over how the text is read by the TTS engine, specifically the prosody of the […]

ReadSpeaker is proud to introduce Speak TTS: a new app that allows you to add a new high quality Text to Speech voice for your Android device and purchase individual licenses of rSpeak voices. Available on Google Play, Speak TTS uses an embedded text-to-speech (TTS) engine which will be added as a new Android system voice. The lifelike Speak […]

How ReadSpeaker Text-to-Speech Solutions Enhance the Learning Experience Webinar: Thursday, October 26, 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT In partnership with Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)’s AccessText, we invite you to attend our webinar on ReadSpeaker TextAid and how it improves the learning experience. This webinar will highlight the ease of implementing and deploying ReadSpeaker’s text-to-speech functionality […]

It was great to see so many people at the Frankfurt Bookfair #FBM17 and we were pleased to see many of you at ReadSpeaker co-founder and COO Joop Heijenrath’s successful Hot Spot presentation: “How to Use Text to Speech to Improve Learning Outcomes and Business Results”. You can download the presentation (PDF) by clicking on […]